Scene Quotes - Page 28

• War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Nature, Regret, War

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• You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

  Ewan McGregor

  Lucky, Auditions, Knows

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

  Charlie Brooker

  Night, Pigs, Cheese

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• I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

  Arik Roper

  Art, Teenage, Years

  Source: dailydead.com

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• What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.

  Charlie Brooker

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• [Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, White, Lions

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Degrees, Example, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

  Park Chan-wook

  Writing, Air, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Skeletons, Fishing

  Source: collider.com

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• I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

  Indira Gandhi

  Baby, Men, Dolls

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I actually fell asleep during one take with Jeffrey Wright because I relaxed myself so much. I just stayed so still that I just nodded off, and kind of snapped back into it in the middle of the scene.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Kind, Middle, Relaxed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

  Ann Patchett

  Problem, Ifs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fighting, Thinking, Vanity

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren't afforded as much time to do each scene.

  Dan Payne

  Eight, Tv Shows, Two

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

  Harrison Ford

  Reality, Emotional, Consistency

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• I shaved my hairline back and dyed my hair and wore a little powder, a little paint, a fat suit, and I changed my voice, but the emotions were consistent with what the point of the scene [with Branch Rickey] was.

  Harrison Ford

  Voice, Hair, Branches

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• I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Excited

  Source: newwest.net

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• To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a couple or sensuality. It's a sort of moralism to think that this shouldn't be seen in the film.

  Sonia Braga

  Couple, Thinking, Making Love

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• We [ with Emilio Estevez] asked if we could take some things [ in Breakfast Club] that weren't in the shooting draft, but from earlier drafts, "Can we maybe use this?" And Hughes was very amenable to all that. And there was some stuff that I liked, and I said, "How about this?" And he went, "Well, we'll check with Molly [Ringwald]. Those scenes are with her. And if she likes it, fine." So it was just wonderful. It was great.

  Judd Nelson

  Use, Shooting, Breakfast

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I called Nic Pizzolatto and he said, "No, no. You're in it the whole way through." That was fun to shoot [in The Lobster]. I had a few scenes in that show that were some of my favorite all-time scenes to be in.

  Colin Farrell

  Fun, Lobster, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My first day on set [Bad Santa 2] was with Billy [Bob Tornton] and it was a sex scene in a Christmas tree lot and you know in order to make it great for the audience you just have to go for it! It was our sort of our icebreaker. There is something very freeing and fun about just playing make believe and it's just over the top and hilarious so you just go for it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Sex, Fun, Believe

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

  Christina Hendricks

  People, Groups, Littles

  Source: screenrant.com

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• After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Band, Today, Stealing

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• New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Trying, Firsts

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.340

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• What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.

  Michael Faraday

  Passion, Fighting, Science

  Michael Faraday, Christian Friedirich Schoenbein (1899). “The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters”

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